It was quite widely reported that the Xbox Live service suffered some lengthy downtime throughout the Christmas period. This was put down to the huge influx of new users as well as the existing users going on leave and playing games instead of going to the beach. However it is now rumoured that it may have been a denial of …
Microsoft has just released there Xbox 360 and Halo 3 sales figures and I have to say they are quite impressive. Obviously Microsoft isn’t the most unbiased source but they haven’t been caught lying about sales figures (yet) as far as I know so I am giving them the benefit of the doubt here. Microsoft has sold 17.7 million Xbox …
Reproduced with permission from Doobiwan As de facto designated 360 fanboy I really think I know more about Microsoft’s business than they do and as such they need to listen to me if they plan on taking over the world. Trust me , I’ve been trying to do it for over a decade and they can learn from my failures …
A huge congratulations to Craig Nicholson who has become the first Microsoft MVP for Xbox in Africa. As many of the people in the gaming community know, Craig has always been around doing his best to help out anyone with a problem and really pushing the Xbox cause in South Africa. Becoming an Xbox MVP is no small feat and …
Stuff.tv has posted today about the new Xbox Ultimate that they are predicting (or confirming) will be released in August 2008. The ultimate comes with the following specs 1080p HDMI output Built in Wi-Fi hi-def audio output 65nm hardware a silent fan HD-DVD drive built in 320GB hard drive to use with the IPTV service Now there has been quite …
Teamxbox.com has a hands on preview of the upcoming Poker Smash for the Xbox 360. Never heard of it? Neither had I but it looks pretty awesome. Basically someone has taken a game of Poker and shoved it into a Tetris framework. So instead of matching colours or patterns you need to create Poker hands. Now the idea itself sounds …
Taking a look at the 2008 floor plan for GDC it is quite easy to spot who has taken the most space. Since we have no new consoles being released this year we can only imagine that Microsoft has something else up its sleeve. Also the proximity to the EPIC stand makes us start thinking that they may well …
I received the above screenshot for Rainbow Six Vegas 2 in my inbox this morning… Actually I received a much bigger one that I can’t put on a website but you get the idea… You can’t see to much from the screenshot but the graphics are looking awesome and the core gameplay seems to be the same, which is a …
A spooky European village. Properly scary castle mania. Vampires. Werewolves! The only thing more frightening, is a glimpse at your empty bank account when it comes to deciding whether or not you can grab Resident Evil Village this month. Capcom's successor to its long-running survival-horror franchise is finally out, and if you've read our review then you know the game is a winner on multiple levels.
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